World

"The Doctor: There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea’s asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice, and somewhere else the tea’s getting cold. Come on, Ace. We’ve got work to do."

"Le monde n'est qu'une bransloire perenne."

"Is it not a noble farce wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the vast universe serves for a theatre?"

"Or may I think when toss'd in trouble, This world at best is but a bubble."

"This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,— There's nothing true but Heaven."

"This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise."

"We look at this as the best of all possible worlds, but the French know it isn't, because most people speak English."

"Think, in this battered Caravanserai, Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultán after Sultán with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way."

"The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small, when your enemy is loose on the other side."

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem; The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream."

"By faith Noah, after receiving divine warning of things not yet seen, showed godly fear and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; and through this faith he condemned the world, and he became an heir of the righteousness that results from faith."

"Quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem."

"This world is strange and incomprehensible, and there are many people who are lost and worried. When you ask who is the oppressor, it turns out that everyone is oppressed.~~ March 8, 2025"

"Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds, and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him he returned this answer: "Do you not think it is a matter worthy of lamentation that where there is such a vast multitude of them we have not yet conquered one?""

"But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see; And where, tho' all things differ, all agree."

"Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your (full compensation) on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained (his desire). And what is the life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion."

"My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought."

"Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purify the mind. A corrupted mind can't recognize the beauty of the world. A pure mind perceives it."

"All nations and kindreds and people and tongues."

"The world of the future will not flourish behind walls—no matter who builds them and no matter what their purpose. A world divided economically must inevitably be a world divided politically. As Secretary of State, I cannot contemplate that prospect with anything but deep disquiet."

"Le monde est le livre des femmes."

"The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynn orderr founde."

"Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something."

"Es liebt die Welt, das Stralende zu schwärzen Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn."

"Denn nur vom Nutzen wird die Welt regiert."

"Most people in the world are poor. If we knew the economy of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matter. Most of the world's poor people earn their living in agriculture. If we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economic of being poor."

"Non sum uni angulo natus; patria mea totus hic est mundus."

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players."

"This wide and universal theatre Presents more woful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in."

"How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!"

"For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away."

"Would I were dead! if God's good will were so: For what is in this world but grief and woe?"

"Mad world. Mad kings. Mad composition."

"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them."

"To be imprisoned in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence around about The pendent world."

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano: A stage where every man must play a part."

"Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."

"The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."

"Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything."

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

"The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn."

"Our leaders tell us there is only one world: the existing world, the globalised world, the hegemonic world. ‘Either sink or swim’, they say. The truth of the matter is that the working people are sinking in the globalised world, while the elite are swimming in it. It is clear therefore that there is a contest between two worldviews: one which wants to maintain the existing world; the other that wants to create an alternative world. Which worldview do we share? We must make a choice, and act in accordance with our choice. [...] The pundits of the status quo have in common with all dominating classes and hegemonic powers the assumption that the existing world is the only realistic world, and no alternative world is possible. Yet, it is the struggle for an alternative world, a better world, which has changed the past and will continue to change the present for a better future. We, the activists, together with the working people, must continue to fight for a better world. An alternative world is possible."

"Making a perpetual mansion of this poor baiting place."

"the world is big/Big and bright and round/And it's full of folks like me/Who are black, yellow, beige and brown"

"If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes,—some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong,—and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other."

"O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers."

"This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."

"I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own."

"To me it seems that they who grasp the world, The kingdom and the power and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness."